Like Stephanie’s, many of your responses this month similarly took visual cues from Josephson’s image above, including photographs of or inside other photographs. Coincidentally, these responses also remind me of some of the sequences of celebrated photographer Duane Michals, whose retrospective, Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals, just opened at the museum (and if you haven’t yet made plans to come and see it, I urge you to do so). My favorite This Picture responses from this month, along with Stephanie’s response above, are from Karen Melvin, Chantel Paul, and Z Liu.

A People’s History of Pittsburgh

Submissions continue to pour in for A People’s History of Pittsburgh, our online collective photo album by and for the people of Pittsburgh. The two that have stuck with me this month for the strength of their formal composition, as well as the beauty of their accompanying stories, are by Karen Burger and Justin Visnesky.

The caption that accompanies Karen’s historic photograph is full of emotion and reminds us how photographs can nurture and sustain deep personal connections to a place that has long since succumbed to the passage of time. She writes: “My grandfather came to this country in 1905. He drove a streetcar, saved his money, and purchased this property, as well as the property on both sides of the street. He was very proud of his name and always said, in his Irish brogue, ‘Don’t ever let that name come down from there’. He would be very sad today that it has been gone for many years. We lived upstairs and all my grandmother’s relatives lived in the surrounding buildings. I loved the days spent listening to their stories and hearing their wonderful laughter. I adored my grandfather, as well. He called me his ‘wee Darlin.’ These memories will live in my heart forever.”

Justin’s beautiful photograph similarly captures a transitory moment in his family’s history that continues to resonate with him today: “My dad took this photo of my mom canoeing on the Clarion River. This was 2 years before I was born. I can’t get over how much my sister looks like my mom did back then.”

If you have any photographs or stories of Pittsburgh that you haven’t yet shared, please consider contributing them to our project before December 31, 2014. Melissa Catanese and Ed Panar, the Pittsburgh-based artists who conceived of this project, will be selecting their favorites from among your digital submissions and will ultimately print them in a photobook, forthcoming in 2015. Make sure your Pittsburgh story joins the digital archive by uploading it here.

The view from Michael Doser’s office building at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Photograph: Divya Rao Heffley.

What do photography and particle physics have in common?

More than you might think, it turns out. The fifth and final episode of The Invisible Photograph documentary series, Subatomic: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, premieres at the museum on Thursday, February 26, 2015. So save the date! And get ready to explore the Atlas Detector—the world’s biggest digital camera, housed at CERN, one of the world’s foremost institutions for scientific and technological research—and learn about experiments that use photographic emulsion to decode the behavior of anti-matter. Tickets coming soon!